Article: The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama.(Book Review)

The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama, by Nora Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. x + 206. Cloth $60.00.

In productive dialogue with recent work on theatrical collaboration, on early modern figurations of authorship, and on intersections between the page and stage, Nora Johnson's new study offers an original and provocative exploration of "actors as innovators in the construction of authorship ... [and of] the theatricality of authorship itself" (4). (1) Refreshingly, and perhaps surprisingly, the book is not focused upon Jonson or Shakespeare (though Johnson devotes a coda to the latter and much attention to the former); rather, ...

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